2022 Bergmeyer Corporate Social Responsibility Report - Flipbook - Page 20
Bergmeyer’s Mariam Yakub with Petaluma
residents in a community meeting.
Sketch of one of the proposed mixed-use development
nodes by the DAT Petaluma team.
The DAT team identified where
mixed-use development nodes should
occur to make Petaluma walkable and
carbon-neutral.
The Petaluma DAT team at work. Pictured L to R, Mariam
Yakub, Trung Vo, Dr. Luis Aguirre-Torres, Aida Curtis.
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Since 2010, Bergmeyer has provided pro-bono consulting services to
communities struggling to achieve equitable and sustainable growth
through supporting the work of the American Institute of Architects’
Communities by Design (CxD) service grants known as RUDATs
(Regional Urban DesignAssistance Teams) or SDATs (Sustainable
Design Assistance Teams). Bergmeyer’s participation in thirteen design
assistance projects has allowed us to help communities in Georgia and
Kentucky address disinvestment related to institutionalized racism,
assist communities in Utah and New Mexico in addressing the impacts
of the changing global economy, and help communities in coastal Maine
address the threat of sea level rise.
In 2022, Bergmeyer’s Mariam Yakub, AIA, NCARB, joined veteran DAT team leader, Mike
Davis, FAIA, on a Sustainable Design Assistance project in Petaluma, California. Recognizing
the car-dependence and inequitable access to resources that impacted their community, the
citizen-activists of Petaluma invited CxD to help them imagine their city as both carbon neutral
and a “15-minute city” where every resident has access to most of their daily needs within
a 15-minute walk or bicycle ride from their home. The multidisciplinary Petaluma SDAT team
included experts in “green” infrastructure, floodwater management, alternative transit modes,
economic development, and carbon-neutral municipal policy. Bergmeyer’s work involved
identifying – and illustrating – new potential mixed-use development nodes distributed
throughout Petaluma’s suburban fabric that would enhance underutilized commercial sites
creating a vision for Petaluma’s sustainable future.
